Archives - 28 July 2016, Thursday

John Voelcker 135 views Jul 28, 2016 Follow John Add to circle Tesla Supercharger site in Newburgh, New York, up and running - June 2015 Enlarge Photo By now, the Tesla Supercharger network has provided a superb cast study showing the importance of a comprehensive nationwide network o...

Stephen Edelstein 178 views Jul 28, 2016 2017 Kia Niro Enlarge Photo The 2017 Kia Niro is the first dedicated hybrid model from the Korean carmaker. Unlike the Toyota Prius or the 2017 Hyundai Ioniq from its sister company, the Niro takes the form of a crossover utility vehicle, rathe...

Stephen Edelstein 135 views Jul 28, 2016 2014 Jaguar XJR - First Drive - August 2013 Enlarge Photo The success of Tesla Motors has made quite an impression on the main German luxury carmakers, all of which plan future products that can compete with the automaker from Silicon Valley. N...

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Many traditional utility companies are not at all happy about individuals and companies making and sharing their own solar power. They have been protected monopolies for more than a century and would like things to stay that way. NV Energy in Nevada is owned by Warren Buffett. It has ...

The long-anticipated Mitsubishi Outlander plug-in hybrid was expected later this year but has once again been postponed for the U.S. and Canada. This is about the fifth time it’s been delayed to North America since its 2013 Japan-market launch, and speaking for the U.S. market, Alex F...

Ford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are collaborating on a new research project that measures how pedestrians move in urban areas to improve certain public transportation services, such as ride-hailing and point-to-point shuttles services. The project will introduce a f...

Stephen Edelstein 1,792 views Jul 28, 2016 2017 Kia Niro Enlarge Photo Today, the Tesla Supercharger network is boosted to a rate of 145 kilowatts, we take a look at the 2017 Kia Niro hybrid, and Jaguar prioritizes two new electric cars over a pair of performance models. All this and ...

General Motors’ Orion Assembly plant which will begin producing the 2017 Chevy Bolt EV in as soon as two months from now has been ranked by the U.S. EPA as 8th among green power users. The assembly plant which is an EPA Green Power Partnership Partner is powered by 54-percent renewabl...

Daimler Trucks has presented the Mercedes-Benz Urban eTruck in Stuttgart, as the first fully electric truck with an admissible total weight of up to 26 tonnes. The market launch of this technology is conceivable for Daimler Trucks at the beginning of the next decade. In the light dist...

While Tesla’s Gigafactory has been grabbing attention this week, reporters also learned more about electrified vehicle batteries while touring General Motors’ Brownstown Battery Assembly Plant . General Motors had invited journalists to visit the battery assembly plant located in Brow...

Working in their spare time, a group of Nissan engineers wanted a prototype Leaf electric car for a local motorsport event. The engineers, from Nissan’s Innovation team at the Nissan Technical Center (NTCE) in Barcelona, Spain, worked on the car for six-months and created a Leaf with ...

John Voelcker 6,459 views Jul 27, 2016 Follow John Add to circle If it's built out to the full size in the original plans, the Tesla gigafactory outside Reno, Nevada, will cover 10 million square feet. That's the equivalent of more than 260 U.S. football fields, which would make it on...

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Ranking as the cumulatively best-selling plug-in electrified in the U.S., the Chevrolet Volt is crossing a 100,000 unit milestone. Also the first PEV to undergo a complete redesign, and now in its second generation, the extended-range EV may have quietly sold its 100,000th example thi...